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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2014
Hitachi-lg Data Storage, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Chiyo Ohno, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Akinobu Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A data recording/reproducing device for recording data on a recordable area of a recording medium in an arbitrary recording unit, includes a control unit that controls the operation of the data recording/reproducing device. The control unit designates a recording unit where data on the recordable area is not recorded as a non-use area, determines whether data has been recorded, or unrecorded in the recording unit on the recordable area, determines the recording unit designated as the non-use area to have been recorded, and records data in the recording unit determined to be unrecorded when data is recorded on the recording medium, under the control.